A refreshing Maggie Pearl

     Although I finished the Maggie Pearl quilt top at retreat in March, I just quilted it. I did not think a pattern would show up well with all those pieces but did not want do straight lined. I thought of the wandering curves that make up a circle and it was easy to do. It moved along swimmingly and I think it looks good to have that curvy pattern on top of the block pattern consistent with each pieced square. I made a striped binding. Once again, I added a border so all those seams won't be in the binding.
    This is an available comfort quilt.

Choosing binding

All Bound in stripe

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Maggie Pearl progress

      I took strip pairs to the retreat that were pulled from my stash to make the Maggie Pearl free pattern I saw other blog friends make. Each set of strips makes one block. I sewed all the strips and subcut them, sewing again, and then tried to arrange them in a coherent way.

     Finally, I found a layout and sewed the entire quilt using the webbing technique.

     However, when I got home, I realized that the quilt was too narrow. I dug around and found 5 more sets to sew after auditioning them to the left side.

     After completing those blocks, I finished the top and like it much better for a comfort quilt.